Dante Carver is an African American actor working in Japan. He moved to Japan in 2005, and became well known following his appearance in a series of TV commercials for SoftBank Mobile from 2006 in which he first played the Japanese-speaking "Yosō Guy" character, and later the older brother of the character played by Aya Ueto as part of the fictional "White family" headed by a white Hokkaido dog. In 2008, Carver was voted the most popular male actor in a TV commercial in Japan, beating Takuya Kimura who had previously held the top position for eight consecutive years. Source: Wikipedia